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TIL that a 2011 survey found that Belgians are the world’s least “cool” nationality

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4X1oX TIL Rags, who became a World War I dog hero, was originally just a stray pup picked up by a couple of American soldiers in July of 1918. He carried messages from one US infantry division to the next tucked under his collar. He was buried with military honours when he died in 1936.
Lk590 TIL that 'Naan' means bread. If you say 'naan bread', it literally means 'bread bread'.
GYl4j TIL Pablo Escobar offered to pay the entirety of Colombia’s $20 billion debt to avoid extradition to the United States.
P11BE TIL that the Voyager 1 Space probe launched by NASA in 1977 has traveled over 14 billion miles away from earth as of 2022.
loygG TIL in 1878, with $11 of savings, Alonzo Herndon walked out of the town he grew up sharecropping in and developed an empire of barber shops, real estate, and the Atlanta Life Insurance Company. He became a millionaire and a charter member of the Niagara Movement and National Negro Business League.